Heckel's Adventures

Unfortunately, I do not have any pics from Thursday. We drove to Sisters with a last minute change to our trip. We were able to meet up with some family there and BBQd together that night. We are now back home.

On Wednesday, we backtracked a bit to Newport and took in the aquarium. Very impressive. I guess there are two there, and from reviews of another couple, we took in the right one. Our weather cleared up and we got a great sunset back at the beach.

Tuesday we drove further up the coast to Lincoln City, where we would stay for a couple days. We did see the Sea Lion Caves. This is a view from the entrance to the caves. There is an elevator which takes you down more than 200 ft. We both had our binnoculars along which was helpful for seeing the sea lions clearly.

Monday we drove up the shore from Cresent City, CA to Bandon, OR. Above is Whale rock and below is Face rock.

We woke up to a very wet camp Sunday morning on the Rogue River. We packed up, went out for breakfast, and drove down the Redwood Highway. We walked some interpretive trails in the trees. The giants provided some great shelter from the rain. We ended our day in Cresent City walking and hiking in areas on the shore.

We drove around Crater Lake to start out our day. The boat tour with the drop off at Wizzard Island was unavailable due to a broken boat. We then decided to hike Mt Scott to the still functioning lookout tower. The hike was 5 miles round trip with 1250 in elevation. It was a nice hike, the weather was cool, perfect for exerting on the way up, just a bit chilly initially on the way down.